Research Into 'Line'of Knotted Wear Design

Knotting technique is an old subject in knitted wear design field. Because ofthe development of mechanization, knotting by hand was ignored. However, from thefashion design of these years, we found hand knotting become a new fashion, and becomepopular.Also, knotting technique is an old art. It was fund and renewed by people withintheir life and experience. It was used by lots of international fashion designers,to be a part of their new garments. But there are no any information talkedacademically about how to use this technique on fashion design.About three sources on the knotting technique could be found: Fiber art, Chineseknots and Daily knots. There have so many means, materials and lots of shapes of knots,and with the design direction, the author chose to talk about the figure of the"line" on the knot to get the idea that how to use the knot on garments, to getthe new method of design. And may it could be a reference of fashion designers inour country. "Line" is the main line of this paper. First, it analyzed the basis of "line".Second, it talked about the line in knots, then, the line in knotted garments. Atlast, it got the idea to use the knotting technique to design garments, not only itwas suitable for the garments, but also it can give more ideas to designers.From the experiment and research, the author found it was big subject to researchon the "knotting technique and fashion design". So according to the time, and thedirection of research, it chose to analyze the subject on "line" of knots. Of course,from the point of 'point', 'surface', 'substance' or ' functionality' of theknots to talk about, also is a good study.